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  • 1Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, AustriaGeorg-Elias-Müller-Institute for Psychology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germanychristian.valuch@psych.uni-goettingen.dehttp://experiment.one.

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Visual memory aids attention shifts after video cuts when scenes are similar. This top-down attention effect relies on viewers actively matching content across shots.

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  • Cognitive Psychology
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  • Dynamic scenes in films and TV utilize cuts, abrupt transitions between shots.
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  • To investigate how visual memory of preceding shots influences attention deployment to subsequent shots after video cuts.
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  • Covert and overt attention were measured using tasks involving target and distractor movies.
  • A third experiment explored stimulus-driven (bottom-up) priming effects with alternative shot continuations.

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    • High visual similarity across cuts enhanced the speed and accuracy of attention deployment to the target movie's continuation.
    • Stimulus-driven priming alone, even with high similarity, did not reliably capture attention.
    • Memory-guided attention facilitated attention deployment, but only when viewers actively matched scene content.

    Conclusions:

    • Memory for visual features of precut shots aids attention deployment to postcut shots, particularly when visual similarity is high.
    • The facilitation of attention is dependent on top-down, memory-guided processes, not solely stimulus-driven priming.
    • Active viewer engagement in matching scene content across cuts is essential for this attentional effect.